Chapter ２

Haden's mouth deformed into a gentleman's smile. He looked at me like I'm the only girl around and that makes Elizebeth more Furious, his muscles bulging from his well-tailored high-end suit that makes his Figure appear more manly but elegant, I can't help the excitement when I touched his arm and A sharp, pleasantly masculine scent wafted toward me, taking my breath away.

Thinking about these things makes me blush, so I tilted my head to hide my tomato face. That is when we were interrupted by Aunt Serina.

"Haden, I would like you to meet Elizabeth Vermant, she is an actress and the daughter of White Vermant." Elizebeth Flirtatiously smiled at Haden and called out to him. She is about to extend her hand for a proper greeting when Haden ignored her. He looked at her mother and spoke.

"Oh, I just met her in the corridor earlier. If that's all, I'm going back to the office now." His gaze lowered slightly and he replied deadly serious.

I can't believe Aunt Serina is Introducing Elizabeth to Hayden, what is happening...

"Mom, you called me and asked me to come back here, then suddenly you wanted me to meet some random lady, if you told me about that earlier I wouldn't have come over." Haden paused, his face looked confused and annoyed. "I told you before I am not in the mood for a relationship. Doing that will be a waste of my precious time. I am too young for that" Haden said emotionlessly.

The atmosphere suddenly froze, and Elizebeth's face instantly contorted, her lips twisted. She does not know what to do so she looked at Aunt Serina with helpless eyes as if all her hopes had been dashed away.

Aunt Serina twisted the corners of her mouth into an awkward smile and looked at Elizabeth,

"Oh, Elizabeth, you know the history of our family, right? In our tradition, falling in love is just the second step. We can skip that phase altogether and proceed to marriage, don't worry one day we will talk about your wedding and both our families will finally unite, I will talk to Haden about this." Aunt Serina squeezed Elizebeth's shoulder to give her assurance.

Elizebeth suddenly smiled and her eyes became hopeful. I can't deny that she has a gorgeous face.

"Our Haden always put on a serious face. He does that to everyone, even me as his mother, so don't feel bad, Elizebeth, everything will be fine. ", Aunt Serina added.

Elizebeth is nodding at every word Aunt Selina is telling her. A little of her confidence came back and she finally said "It's okay, I understand " Her voice was as sweet as sugar and she hugged Aunt Serina.

Haden looked a little uncomfortable and wiggled his eyebrows. He made a sign to everyone and turned to leave, but before leaving, his eyes lingered on me for a moment. Our eyes met and I hastily avoided his gaze, why is he looking at me like that? Or maybe I am just Imagining things. But I liked it of course. I then focused my attention to aunt Selina, and when I looked at her, she sighs with disbelief. Maybe she really wanted Haden and Elizabeth to be together. I wanted to ask her, but I refrained myself from doing so.

"Ms. Serina, I still have things that I need to do. Let us meet again sometime, okay? I will make time for you. Call me if something comes up."

As she watched Haden leave, Elizebeth also picked up her noble Hermes bag. He put it in her things in inside, turned around, and left as well.

I think this was the last time that I would meet with Haden again, but I am hoping that we will meet again someday, maybe even after years again. I just can't forget the moment that he looked at me.

The days were passing by so very quickly and today is my last day in college, Sara and I went to our old classroom, the cafeteria and the hallway that we always hang out before. Yes, college is hard, but I will miss this. We will now enter the real world. Sara and I took the last graduation pictures on the ceremony stage. We hugged, cheered, and cried. Our golden days at Princess acting school are finally over.

When the whole ceremony was over, Sara couldn't wait, she grabbed my hand and head to the bar, she said she wanted to celebrate. I have never gone to a bar before. Even when our friends are always asking us out, I never really tried.

"We need to relax and we deserve that!" exclaimed by Sara excitedly while jumping like a child holding my hands. We went with our few friends back at college. When we entered the bar, many people were dancing at the dance floor enjoying the loud party music. We went to the counter and ordered a bottle of wine.

It will be the first time that I will drink alcohol, I tried a sip, It tasted bitter accompanied by a little taste of sweetness..

"You have to drink more, loosen up, we need to have fun today. We are now independent after all! " Sara was in an excellent mood because she had graduated, she laughed freely,

"Tonight, is going to be great, I assure you that" Sara drained her fifth glass of wine in one go, then walked towards the middle of the dance floor, she began dancing adorably. Maybe one day, I will get used to this setup.

I sat alone in my spot, thinking that the wine was good to drink but I feel a little dizzy. Maybe I consumed too much? My head hurts a little. When I looked back at the middle of the dance floor, which was lit by neon lights, Sara was dancing with a man. No wonder she was so excited tonight.

Suddenly I thought of my parents. I wish they saw me graduate from college because this is their dream for me. I bet they are so happy right now.

Only if they were here. I don’t know but I keep on thinking about my parents this time, and I couldn't help but cry, maybe this is the effect of alcohol for me. I don't care if someone in this bar is looking at me. Who cares, they don’t know me anyway.

Then my thought was interrupted by the bartender carrying a tray with several bottles of wine in different colors.

"Hello, dear guest, here are the drinks you ordered for tonight." I was shocked to see all the wine. Sara had ordered all kinds of their wine in the bar. I already felt dizzy and I'm not sure if I can handle more bottles of wine. I turned my gaze to her, she was still dancing in the middle with a man. It's been 3 hours when we first arrived here, and there are still many people.

How can I drink all this by myself? "I can't drink all this wine. Can I give it back?", I asked the bartender.

"I'm sorry dear guest, we have already opened the lid of the wine you ordered. The wine cannot be returned. " Then the waiter placed the wines in front of me. To my amazement, Sara had ordered $50,000 worth of their most expensive wines. I can't believe that she is willing to spend this much money for wine!

I couldn't help but frown looking at the table with the wine bottles. I had no choice but to pay for the wine. Sara is very busy dancing in the dance floor. I handed my card for the payment.

Since I paid for this, I might as well drink them. Wines has lesser alcohol content compared to others... This is going to be just like drinking bitter juice. I will drink all this, then I will go home and sleep.

"Cheers to my graduation and my dream of becoming an actress," I said to myself. Maybe I should let lose for myself too. After swiping my card, I nodded to the bartender who gave me back my card signaling him to leave then off he left me. I picked up the corkscrew, poured some in my glass and took sip after sip. I did not notice that I almost consumed half of the wines in the tray.

Cheers to my parents, my friends, to my dreams and to my future. I am still thinking that the wine I consumed has lesser alcohol content, so I did not feel a strong effect in me. However, I felt a little dizzy after drinking almost all of it.

I looked back at Sara. I can see her twirling. Maybe she was doing a sweet twirling dance. But why was the ceiling twirling too?

I decided to go to the restroom to freshen up, though I'm not sure where it is located,I kept on walking while my sight is spinning and my head is hurting.

I suddenly I felt that my cellphone vibrating. At first, I ignored it but it keeps on vibrating, so I took out my phone from my purse. I didn't pay attention to the screen and picked up immediately.

"Elena, where have you been?" A familiar male voice rang out.